Hoop Basin: Drilling success and playground for new exploration methods
The Hoop Basin The integration of several data sets will be essential for hydrocarbon exploration in the Hoop Fault Complex area of the Barents Sea. The Hoop Fault Complex has…
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5th Annual Stoneley Lecture – Volcanoes Coming to London!
By announcing that Sir Tony Robinson, star of the BBC’s ‘Black Adder’ and presenter of Channel 4’s ‘Time Team’, will deliver this year’s Stoneley Lecture, the PESGB have once again…
‘What Oilfields?’ Onshore Oil in the UK
A prelude to the great discoveries of the North Sea, the onshore oilfields provide a fascinating insight into the history of UK oil. In Victorian times, there were many reports in…
Broadband Seismic Technology and Beyond Part IV: PGS’s Geostreamer – Mission Impossible
In 2007, PGS took the industry by surprise with the launch of the GeoStreamer, the dual-sensor towed streamer that kick-started the broadband revolution. But how did they solve the riddle…
Memories of Iraqi Kurdistan
In 2003, the fall of Saddam Hussein opened up semi-autonomous Kurdistan to foreign investment. It also revived the interest of oil companies in the region, which had been explored, but…
Towed streamer EM for success
Close-up of Johan Castberg area. Example comparison between the measured resistivity at wells in the Johan Castberg and Caurus areas and the resistivity recovered via anisotropic inversion. See the big…
South West Barents Sea
Survey area superimposed on the main structural elements and license situation of the western Barents Sea. Geoseismic representation of an inline within the South West Barents Sea fast track – post stack…
SHETLAND ROCKS! Improved sub-basalt structural imaging
Left: Location of the Faroe Shetland Basin (FSB) dataset. Right: FSB dataset line location map. West of Shetland: improved sub–basalt imaging Newly reprocessed long offset seismic data from the Faroe…
Barents Sea: complete integration of well data and seismic data
A Powerful Integrated Tool Although considered primarily a frontier region, recent discoveries have put the Barents Sea firmly on the map. Large parts of the Barents Sea can be regarded…
Western margin of UK Central Graben
New and proven plays The recent successful Blakeney discovery in UK Q21 improves the potential for more successful discoveries on the West Central Shelf. As the recent 27th UK licensing…
Clari-Fi™ Broadband Data from Conventional Streamer Acquisition
TGS data lines in the Faroe Shetland Basin. Clari-Fi your data TGS’s Clari-FiTM is a proprietary three-step processing solution which allows broadband pre-stack seismic data to be generated from conventionally…
Broadband 3D: building blocks for exploration in a mature setting
The MC3D NVG survey comprises MC3D NVG 09/10/11 GeoStreamer surveys acquired in conjunction with TGS and PGS MC3D NVG 05 survey. Improved resolution and penetration with Broadband 3D The…